Up until album #300, I’ve been doing monthly themes. For the next stretch, inspired by some of my fellow bloggers, I’m going to go week-by-week. And for the next 26 or so, I’ll take it one letter at a time.

Thanks to the magic ‘sort’ feature of Excel, I was able to arrange all 1001 albums alphabetically (by artist name) and found the following distribution:

Letter

# of albums

% of list

0-9

5

0.5%

A

37

3.7%

B

99

9.9%

C

80

8.0%

D

63

6.3%

E

31

3.1%

F

32

3.2%

G

39

3.9%

H

28

2.8%

I

15

1.5%

J

34

3.4%

K

26

2.6%

L

32

3.2%

M

83

8.3%

N

26

2.6%

O

18

1.8%

P

56

5.6%

Q

7

0.7%

R

44

4.4%

S

119

11.9%

T

39

3.9%

U

9

0.9%

V

13

1.3%

W

40

4.0%

X

4

0.4%

Y

16

1.6%

Z

6

0.6%

Total

1001

I quickly became curious as to which letters would be in my Top 5 Artist Name Letters. I’m thinking “B” “M” “P” “R” and “S” will be tough to beat but for fun I thought I’d spend a week with each letter and its respective artists.

I’ll begin with “A” (saving bands starting with ‘0-9’ for now) and a Top 5 “A”rtists – looking forward to hearing your agreements/disagreements as the alphabet goes along.